The Devil's Bath's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
This haunted and harrowing psychodrama ? based on surviving records from the 18th century, and rooted in the day-to-day tedium of Styrian farm life ? has too much respect for its emotionally isolated heroine to frame her unraveling as part of a broader phenomenon.
The Playlist
Previously, the filmmakers Franz and Fiala brought audiences into "The Lodge," and 2014's "Goodnight Mommy" and "The Devil's Bath" is their finest, possibly most upsetting work yet.
Vulture
The Devil's Bath is a deeply fucked-up picture. I say that with admiration.
New York Times
The film is grounded in a harrowing historical reality, about the terrifying lengths to which women will go to liberate themselves from destructive domestic conditions. Franz and Fiala bring out this reality's latent horrors through a series of suspense-building strategies.
Roger Ebert
This movie's not frustrating because it's blunt or vicious, but because its creators are only so interested in a world condemning Agnes to a dire fate. Her actions may ultimately be shocking, but her story is anything but.
The A.V. Club
Mileage will vary, dictated by your appreciation for methodical avalanches of sorrow driven by puritanical pressures. Everything is minimalistic, punctuated by the devastating context found in the research that helped shape Franz and Fiala's screenplay. Some viewers will recognize dedication, others will have their patience tested.